Humidity drop @ 3a.m

[Beman]

Chameleon Info:

• Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? Male Ambanja x Ambilobe hybrid. Do not have yet should have him by the end of Jan. or early Feb.
• Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? Don’t have him yet.
• Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? Don’t have yet but following recs. from Neptune the Chaneleon
• Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? Will be doing : Zoo Med Repti Calcium without D3- Daily unless it’s a D3 day. Zoo Med Reptivite with D3: Twice a month
• Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? Misting and fogging. Working out kinks right now. Misting 30 min before lights come on and 30 min after lights go off. Am: 1:30, Pm: 3:30, fogging from 10p to 6a
• Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? Don’t have Cham yet.
• History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you. Don’t have Cham yet.

Cage Info:

• Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? 2x2x4 Reptibreeze. Have sides and back covered. Screen open on very top and bottom access door.
• Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? Zoo Med ReptiSun 5.0 T5-HO UVB Fluorescent Reptile Lamp, 22-in, 24-watt, 75w heat bulb for winter as house gets colder and 60w for summer. Plant light unsure of brand. Lights on from 7:30a-7:30p
• Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? Basking- 80-85, ambient house temp is kept ~72. Lowest overnight temp is 65.
• Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? Daytime: 34-50% Nighttime: 70-98%. Has a fall at 3am to 59%- trying to fix this. I have 2 temp/hygrometers (middle and one bottom) brands are SwitchBot and Govee
• Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? All live plants and branches from outside. Pothos, snake plant, money tree, I don’t remember what the other 2 are called.
• Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? Cage is in living room, no availability to move elsewhere, had air vent ~5 feet away on ceiling (getting an air deflector). Cage is 3 feet off floor on a table.
• Location - Where are you geographically located? Midwest.

So everything in here looks good. Keep in mind this boy will need to get at least 2 dozen insects daily. Best to order from a distributor like dubia.com or rainbow mealworms. When it comes to dusting your insects. You want them very lightly dusted. They should not look like powdered donuts. Find out from Framschams what baby has been eating so you can match up with the same insects at first.

Temps just try to ensure that basking spot is not going over 85. Temp gauge with a probe hooked in at the basking branch below the heat. Babies we typically recommend staying closer to 80.

Note babies like to screen climb the top until they are too heavy to do so this can last until they are 6 months sometimes. With this you need to lift fixtures up off the top of the cage. So if baby is screen climbing let us know so you can be given specific info. Thermal burns are high risk with babies due to this.

For your UVB type and strength you need 8-9 inches from the bottom of the fixture to the branch directly below it. If this branch is covered by plants you need to clear the plants off of it. The branch should not be blocked as the UVB will not penetrate the same.

Cage overall looks really good. I would just hook in a lot more smaller branches and or get some flukers fake vines to add. You want small diameter because what you have in there are going to be too large for baby to fully grip. They should always have multiple diameters in the cage no matter the age so they can work their feet.

 

[MKeirn]

So everything in here looks good. Keep in mind this boy will need to get at least 2 dozen insects daily. Best to order from a distributor like dubia.com or rainbow mealworms. When it comes to dusting your insects. You want them very lightly dusted. They should not look like powdered donuts. Find out from Framschams what baby has been eating so you can match up with the same insects at first.

Temps just try to ensure that basking spot is not going over 85. Temp gauge with a probe hooked in at the basking branch below the heat. Babies we typically recommend staying closer to 80.

Note babies like to screen climb the top until they are too heavy to do so this can last until they are 6 months sometimes. With this you need to lift fixtures up off the top of the cage. So if baby is screen climbing let us know so you can be given specific info. Thermal burns are high risk with babies due to this.

For your UVB type and strength you need 8-9 inches from the bottom of the fixture to the branch directly below it. If this branch is covered by plants you need to clear the plants off of it. The branch should not be blocked as the UVB will not penetrate the same.

Cage overall looks really good. I would just hook in a lot more smaller branches and or get some flukers fake vines to add. You want small diameter because what you have in there are going to be too large for baby to fully grip. They should always have multiple diameters in the cage no matter the age so they can work their feet.

I actually added in 5-6 small branches after I took that picture a few weeks ago! Do you think I need to worry about getting an air director for the vent? Is my humidity okay? I have a spike in the morning of about 86% until 8:30a. I will check to see what branch is below my uvb light. I plan on ordering bugs online and doing gut load cubes. How long prior to feeding do I need to gut load? I was thinking throw in a cube the night before and then they will be gut loaded for the morning. Thank you!